I don’t see enough immigrant activists and immigration groups publicly standing with planned parenthood as they’re attacked left and right. 

I am tired

Did social justice movements leave us silent?

We knew about gender roles way before it formulated as a word in our vocabulary. We knew because our fathers and brothers behaved and were treated differently than moms and sisters.

When processing emotions of what happened last night with regards to immigration, they’ll come out in all kinds of ways.

For the past two years I’ve become outspoken about being sexually abused as a child. I also lived undocumented for 19 years. While both, undocumented and victim/survivor, aren’t identities I carry with me, they’re realities that have impacted me. Sometimes, support from other immigrants isn’t where it should be.